Hearthstone

The naxx cost is for the PvE content shit. If they added a set of 100cards, you wouldn't be losing shit, they'd just drop from packs and arena runs like usual and you'd craft them with dusts like usual. They could make the new cards special so that you can't buy them with current ressources and force people to regrind, but I'd assume they'd just have a shittier conversion rate instead or something like that. Also it isn't really like a mmo where you add more powerful cards, you just add more different cards. Having a new deck type like say paladin secret deck wouldn't instantly invalidate the current decks like handlock or miracle rogue, so you wouldn't be at a disadvantage besides in mirror if there's a really strong card for your particular deck, but you'd just need to focus on getting that. And obviously regardless of what they add it would have no effect for arena players.

Famm_sl said:

They'd probably add a new kind of dust AND a shitty conversion rate on the old stuff.

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Yeah what I said, new ressource but instead of forcing people to regrind they'd have a shitty conversion rate(and a grind obviously but both). That said I don't quite see a problem because you'd get the new ressource full time and the conversion from new to old would be 100% so you'd just pick the cards you want and keep collecting stuff.

Anyway don't think it'd have a huge impact on people even if they don't have every current cards, just like you do now with the current pool you'd be working towards specific goals, there would just be different cards to work for and more of them total, but it's not like having every card makes a difference as long as you have the right cards. And since there's only 30cards in a deck, the amount of "right" cards doesn't change much for a particular deck style.

Famm_sl said:

I would think maybe a new class would come with expansion too? There could be the leveling to get those cards too. I guess they'd have to add a slot for another deck then. Shit they could make that an unlockable thing too.

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I doubt they'd gate general cards behind a new class, but obviously the new class would need to get to 10 to get their own class cards. They could add more PvE shit to unlock cards and depending on Naxx success, it might be what they do but what that means is a lot slower release. I think the game could benefit from having just a large amount of cards dumped on it that do new and old stuff and fill some current holes in mana cost/relative power and shit like that.

So that if you want a small mob that heals but doesn't suck, you have another choice than just farseer. Voodoo is crappy, naga aoe heal instead of single makes it meh and priestess of elune is self heal only and is insanely overpriced/shitty stat spread, farseer is the only good healing card and it's insanely better than the others. Having a 4 or 5 mana card that heals and maybe does something else would be cool. Having a card that does the +1/+1 of argus but without taunt would be nice. Having a Pyromancer alternative that works off creatures played would be nice. Having more counters to weapons and secrets would be nice. Tons of really basic shit could be added, the current set doesn't cover a lot of aspects or covers them in very limited way.

That's why you see some cards in every decks, it's because there's just no good alternatives for them. You can keep nerfing them instead but in the end they just get replaced by the next most efficient card and become useless forever half the time, so it's pointless especially when the values are only whole and the difference between one increment is so huge. Like you add 1mana cost to a card and it changes the card entirely from being super good to being dumpster tier. It's hard to balance perfectly in these conditions, it'd be faster to just add another card that does the same thing but with a different balance of cost/tradeoff/effect and now people will pick one or the other depending on their decks and goals.